UFOLOGISTS AND REPORTERS HEAD FOR NOVA BRASILANDIA

The reputed UFO crash near Nova Brasilandia on
July 1 has drawn ufologists, reporters and TV news crews
from all over Brazil.

According to Ataide F.S. Neto, president of the
Brazilian UFO study group AMPUP, "The residents of
Nova Brasilandia affirmed that the unidentified flying
object passed over (on July 1), ripping the skies over that
county. According to the locals, the object was an
enormous ball of fire that illuminated the region, leading
them to suspect that the UFO crashed at some point in
the rural area of the county."

Nova Brasilandia is 260 kilometers (156 miles)
northeast of Cuiaba, the state capital of Mato Grosso do
Sul. The area is also 200 kilometers (120 miles) from
the Chapada dos Guimaraes, a UFO hotspot during the
1986 flap.

Neto said the crash "happened at around 8 p.m."
on July 1, 1997. "A huge ball of fire passed over the
houses and went toward the serras (mountains). After
two to four seconds, they heard an earsplitting din, like
an explosion." The sound was heard "in a radius of
160 kilometers (100 miles), and due to the impact, the
land shaked. Soon after that, a gleam of light appeared,
and it lasted for about one minute."

A man named "Heleno" claimed to have gotten within
"200 meters" (120 feet) of the impact crater. "He says
that the stuff is the size of a van, the color is silvery, and
that part of it is above the ground and the rest is buried."

At the farm called Bela Vista, reporters from the
newspaper Correio de Mato Grosso interviewed vaqueiro
(cowboy) Gilberto Braga, age 26, on July 9, 1997.

"Previously he (Braga) had affirmed he saw the object,"
Neto reported. "Now he denies it. However, in the filmed
report (by Gazeta TV--J.T.), he appeared almost crying,
wanting to say something more."

One Nova Brasilandia resident was quoted as saying
that the UFO crashed at Bela Vista farm and "Fogoio is
there with the stuff. I saw Fogoio with a piece of the
object."

Another said, "What Joao told me is that the object
is the size of a Volkswagen (Fusca model)."

Sr. Calixto, a reporter for Correio de Mato Grosso
went to the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais
(INPE) in Sao Jose do Campos to obtain satellite photos
of the region. In this manner, he hopes to pinpoint the
crash site. (Muito obrigado a Paulo Andrade, Pedro
Cunha e Ataide F.S. Neto por eso caso.)

(Editor's Comment: Interestingly, the alleged crash site
is just north of the Serra do Roncador. Seventy-two
years ago, in July 1925, Colonel Percy H. Fawcett, his
son Jack Fawcett, and their partner, Raleigh Rimmell,
disappeared in this region while hunting for the
legendary underground cities of Matalir and Araracauga.
For more weird news from Brazil, read on...)

ICE METEORS BOMBARD SOUTHERN BRAZIL

On Tuesday, July 22, 1997, Jurandir Zullo, a scientist
at Campinas State University, revealed that Sao Paulo
state had been struck twice in recent weeks by large
blocks of ice weighing in excess of 50 kilograms.

The first "ice meteor" crashed on July 11, smashing
through the tiled roof of a bus factory in Campinas, 99
kilometers (63 miles) northwest of Sao Paulo city.

Zullo reported, "People saw it just after it landed,
and it was around 248 square inches in size. They then
put it in the freezer, but it still melted a little. When we
got there, it weighed 220 kilograms (110 pounds)."

Four days later, on Tuesday, July 15, a second "ice
meteor" struck a farm field 59 kilometers (37 miles)
north of Campinas, creating a small impact crater.

"The tower at the (Campinas) airport has said that
there were no airplanes passing over when the ice blocks
fell," Zullo reported.

In April 1995, Chinese scientists recovered "chunks
of meteoric ice" that plummeted to Earth on a farm in
Zhiejang province.

(Editor's Comment: Campinas, S.P. is the city where
one of the Varginha aliens was autopsied on January
22, 1996.)

UFOs SIGHTED IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY

On Friday, July 18, 1997, at just about noontime,
Sandra Brown and John Gardner were driving on Highway
35 through Sparta, Kentucky when they spotted a
daylight disc in the sky.

"You'd have to say it was a UFO," Brown told the
Gallatin County News. "We pulled over on the side of
the road and watched it for about five minutes."

Ms. Brown described the UFO as "round, silver,
had no lights and was a little bigger than a car."

"It kind of just sat there," Brown said, "It hung in the
sky in one place and then, in the blink of an eye, it
disappeared...I know people will think we're crazy, but
we really saw this." (See the Gallatin County News for
July 23, 1997, page 1, "Couple Report Seeing UFO
Flying Over Gallatin.")

Sparta, Kentucky is at the intersection of Highways
35 and 467, about 40 miles (64 kilometers) southwest
of Cincinnati, Ohio.

The following day, Saturday, July 19, 1997, at 7:30
p.m., Mark S. was outdoors in his hometown of
Alexandria, Kentucky (population 4,735) "and just
happened to look up at the sky. I saw something
moving across the sky and I thought it was a jet flying
at high altitude. As I watched the object, I realized that
I couldn't see any wings."

"Then I noticed a second object moving in the same
direction," he reported. "Not too far behind the first. I
could not see any wings on the second object, either.
Both of these objects were identical. They appeared to
be flying very high, where you would normally see
military jets flying. They resembled a missile, not
very long and all white."

"I could see something orange in color at the rear
end of these objects. I couldn't tell if the orange piece
was part of the object or flames coming from an engine.
Both were traveling almost due north (towards the city
of Cincinnati--J.T.), and from my perspective, they were
about one foot apart. They were both moving pretty fast.
I first noticed them as they were directly overhead, and
it took almost one minute to move out of my line of
sight. There were no visible vapor trails or any other
evidence that they were there." (Many thanks to
Kenneth Young of T.A.S.K. for the Kentucky reports.)

HOVERING ORBS SEEN IN SALIDA, COLORADO

On Saturday, July 12, 1997, at 10 p.m., Alan, a cook
at the Patio Restaurant, spotted "a white globe appearing
as a bright star and then blowing up to about half the
size of the full moon" over Salida, Colorado.

Salida (population 4,870) has been a UFO hotspot
for the past two years. The town is located on Colorado
Highway 50 about 85 miles (136 kilometers) southwest
of Denver.

The white globe retreated to the south, passing over
Methodist Mountain, 12 miles (19 kilometers) south of
Salida.

On Friday, July 18, 1997, at 12:30 a.m., Laray
Chappell, age 16, was watching a Flight for Life helicopter
south of Salida when she saw "a green globe south of
town over Methodist Mountain. Viewed for a few seconds
hovering, and then shoots straight south in a downward
movement and disappears behind a ridge. As it took off
at tremendous speed, she said there was a streak much
like a shooting star."

Ms. Chappell, the daughter of Salida ufologist Tim
Edwards, described the UFO as "about half the size of
the full moon, pure green and was a very strange sight."
(Many thanks to Tim Edwards for these reports.)

UFOs SPOTTED OVER NEW JERSEY AND LONG ISLAND

On Sunday night, July 20, 1997, two engineers in
Voorhees, New Jersey (population 20,179) observed
a UFO for over 45 minutes.

Bob Fulmer and Richard Miller spotted the UFO
in the sky over Voorhees, a suburban community
15 miles (25 kilometers) southeast of Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.

"The craft was changing colors from white to green
to red and back to white in the northern sky," reported
George A. Filer of MUFON. "It moved back and forth
at fairly slow speed, hover and then would slip off at
high speed and then return...No structure could be
observed. It finally flew away at high speed."

On Saturday, July 12, 1997, at 11:45 p.m., MUFON
investigator Andrew Casaveno "was in his backyard in
Uniondale, Long Island, New York and very briefly
witnessed a bright light roughly 3/4 the size of the
moon moving sideways from southwest to northeast
and then completely vanished. He could not distinguish
any features of this object other than a slight oblong
shape and extreme brightness."

Uniondale (population 24,500) is located 10 miles
(16 kilometers) east of John F. Kennedy International
Airport in Queens, N.Y. (See Filer's Files #28,
copyright 1997 by George A. Filer, for these stories.)

STRANGE SIGHTING DEEPENS MISSING LEAR JET MYSTERY

On December 24, 1996, at 10 a.m., a Lear jet
preparing to land at the municipal airport in Lebanon,
New Hampshire (population 11,134) was asked to
"go around" and try again. Minutes later, the jet
vanished from the tower's radar screen.

Seven months of sophisticated air and ground
search have failed to turn up any trace of the missing
Lear jet and its pilots, Johan Schwartz, 31, of
Westport, Connecticut and Patrick Hayes, 30, of
Clinton, Connecticut.

On Saturday, July 12, 1997, "Allison Gilliland of
Grafton (New Hampshire), head of a search and rescue
team, was a passenger in a Cessna looking for the
jet...when she spotted 'something manmade, that was
flat and white and large,' Gilliland said."

"'It may be nothing, or it might be something
positive.'"

"Gilliland said the object she saw was about
4,500 feet up a slope north of Lincoln (N.H.)."

"The terrain around the object is rough and will be
difficult to get to on foot, she said. Gilliland said she
and a volunteer pilot made a couple of passes over the
site and figured a helicopter would be better suited to
identifying the object."

"Lee Schwartz, 74, the pilot said he was busy
flying the plane and trying to avoid the mountain peaks.
He said he did not seen what Gilliland saw and could
not confirm what the object was."

The "white, flat object" was sighted on the slope
of Mount Lafayette, about 50 miles (80 kilometers)
north of Lebanon airport. However, no further
confirmation of sightings of Lear jet wreckage have
been forthcoming.

As of July 27, 1997, Schwartz, Hayes and their
Lear jet remain missing. (See the Boston, Mass.
Herald for July 14, 1997, "Search for Jet Resumes
After Sighting.")

MORE CROP CIRCLES FOUND IN THE NETHERLANDS

On Tuesday, July 15, 1997, residents of Vlissingen,
a town on the Westerschelde in the Netherlands,
approximately 131 kilometers (82 miles) southwest
of Amsterdam, reported five new crop circles.

The circles were found in a corn field near
Vlissingen. The largest circle had a diameter of
6 meters (20 feet) and was surrounded by four smaller
crop circles.

Thus far in 1997, the Netherlands has reported a
total of 27 crop circles. (See the newspaper Brabants
Dagblad for July 16, 1997. Many thanks to Jeroen
Wierda of Picard UFO Research International for this
news story.)

MYSTERIOUS LIGHT FLASHES OCCUR IN FRANCE

On Monday, July 21, 1997, at 3 p.m. and again at
5 p.m., mysterious flashes lit up the horizon in the town
of Clamart, in the department of Haut de Seine. Town
residents described them as "enormous blue-violet
flashes in the sky." The first luminous glow lasted for
three seconds. The flash at 5 p.m. lasted for
approximately 8 seconds. (Merci beaucoup a Banque
OVNI de France pour ces nouvelles.)

He saw the creature "lifting the chain-link dog
kennel out of the ground in which it was embedded."
Seeing the boy, the Bigfoot dropped the kennel
and dashed into the woods.

Jackie told the Neeses, S.C. Times and
Democrat newspaper that the Bigfoot "smelled
pretty bad." His 16-year-old brother supported
his story.

But not everybody in Neeses believes that
Bigfoot raided the Hutto place.

"I think it's a bunch of baloney," Darlene Riley
of Neeses told the Times and Democrat. "I have
about 10 kids in the house who are scared to go
out and play. My kids have not been out of the
house all day long because they were scared
when they saw this (news story)."

Neeses is on South Carolina Highway 321
approximately 36 miles (57 kilometers) south of
Columbia, the state capital. The area is covered
with small creeks and rivers and swampy land
bordering large farms.

According to cryptozoologist Scott McNabb,
who announced plans to visit the site, the area
"is sparsely populated" and "is a haven for all sorts
of wild game." (See the Neeses, S.C. Times and
Democrat for July 18, 1997. Many thanks to Scott
McNabb for the original news story.)

OUT-OF-PLACE ALLIGATOR APPEARS IN RHODE ISLAND

On Tuesday, July 22, 1997, at noontime, Delcia
Warrell and her two children were walking to her
car at their home at 140 Harrison Street, Pawtucket,
Rhode Island "when they spotted a 20-inch
alligator resting in the shade of the car."

"They didn't pause to investigate."

"'He's got sharp teeth,' said Leon Warrell III,
age 7."

"'It was under the car,' added his sister, D'Nelle
Belle, aged 9, 'It ran out from under the car. We ran
up on the porch. We were scared because it was
snapping.'"

The alligator holed up in a clump of bushes in
front of 136 Harrison Street, as local residents
telephoned the police. Animal Control officer John
Holmes "quickly captured the alligator with a six-foot
snare pole. The alligator, pale green with yellow eyes,
snapped and writhed as Holmes lifted it. Then it
hissed when Holmes rested it on the ground before
placing it in a plastic pet carrier."

"'It's definitely an alligator,' Holmes said, 'That's a
first for me.'"

"The alligator was turned over to zookeepers at
Roger Williams Park in Providence on the advice of
wildlife experts with the state Department of
Environmental Management." (See the Pawtucket,
R.I. Times for July 23, 1997, page 1, "Alligator Gives
City Residents A Scary Thrill.")

HORSE MUTILATIONS BAFFLE POLICE IN IOWA

At least seven horses in eastern Iowa have been
stripped of their tails during the past couple of months.
The latest theft occurred this week in Solon, Iowa
(population 969).

Val Upmeir, who owns a stable where the tails
of two horses were cut off last May, said, "I have no
idea who would be mean enough to do this. They
didn't cut the whole tail off. Whoever did it had a
conscience. They left a fifth of what had been there."

It takes almost two years for a horse's tail to
grow back.

Don Gaddis, whose horses were also sheared,
said, "We're into the fly season. They need their
tails to keep the flies away."

Solon is Iowa Highway 965, about 175 miles
(280 kilometers) east of Des Moines. (See the
Pawtucket, R.I. Times for July 23, 1997, page 1.)

BIZARRE FIBROUS MATERIAL FALLS ON CITY IN IDAHO

Stories of a strange dark-colored fibrous
material and seven unexplained local deaths have
some residents of Caldwell, Idaho (population
17,699) jittery.

On Saturday, July 19, 1997, one resident
reported, "The news talked about strange stuff
being dropped from the sky over Caldwell. It was
all over houses, cars, equipment, shrubs, etc.
They said it looked like feces, but that they were
unable to confirm what it was. Isn't that strange?"

The resident also claimed that seven people
in Caldwell had died "of a strange disease that
takes all their air out of your lungs and oxygen
out of the blood. Channel 2 News out of Boise
said that there were no common ties of any kind"
that might explain the unusual respiratory malady.

Caldwell is on Interstate Highway 84 in Idaho
approximately 25 miles (40 kilometers) west of
Boise, the state capital. (Many thanks to T.W.
for forwarding this story.)

from the UFO Files...1909: AIRSHIP FLIES OVER SCHOOL IN KELSO, N.Z.

(This week we continue our look at the little-known
airship flap in New Zealand of late July 1909. Many
thanks to ufologist Murray Bott for these reports.)

On July 19, 1909, three residents of Oamaru, a
town of the coast of New Zealand's South Island
approximately 100 miles (160 kilometers) north of
Kaka Point, reported "a flickering light" moving about
in the sky.

Four days later, on July 23, 1909, "a small group
of schoolchildren and some residents reported that
an airship came down and bobbed around in the sky
over the school for a few minutes." This incident
took place in Kelso, S.I., New Zealand.

A reporter for the Otago Daily Times went to Kelso,
interviewed the witnesses, and submitted this report:
"All those scholars who saw the ship were interrogated
singly and independently and were asked to draw an
impression of what they had seen. The result was
six drawings, the degree of resemblance and unanimity
of which was nothing short of dumbfounding to all
sceptics. Special interrogation of the boys revealed
the fact that none had drawn the diagram before not
had they been interested in airships prior to witnessing
this one. One of the boys in addition to the side view
was able to draw it from beneath as the ship passed
over his head. This showed two sails on each side.
One boy drew a revolving propellor at the rear." (See
the Otago Daily Times for July 31, 1909.)

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Talk about weird weeks! And the wierdness
isn't over yet. Remember two weeks ago, July 13,
when we mentioned that it was the anniversary of
the 1793 assassination of the French revolutionist,
Dr. Jean-Paul Marat? Well, you'll never guess what
today is.

Give up? July 27 is the birthday of Dr. Marat's
assassin! Yes, it was on July 27, 1768 that
Marie-Anne Charlotte Corday d'Arlmont, better known
as Charlotte Corday, was born in Normandy. Isn't
that bizarre?

So if you're in the tub today, and you happen to
see a lady in a black hat and a striped skirt toting
a kitchen knife heading your way, grab that towel
and run!

Meanwhile, I'll let historians of the future figure
out whether or not the fair Charlotte was Dr. Marat's
mistress; Adam Weishaupt's mistress; or both.

That's it for this week. Join us next Sunday for
more saucer news from "the paper that goes home--
UFO ROUNDUP."

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